"discharged. A policeman tried to hold her, but she broke free and viciously attacked the hapless Reed, punching and scratching him. She became known as the ultimate stage mother by way of the classic musical """", based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. Originally staged in 1959, ""Gypsy"" – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Arthur Laurents – has since been performed in countless venues on stage and in film. Both versions portray her as a domineering, take-no-prisoners stage mother who will do anything to further the success of her daughters in show"
"Best Direction of a Play in 1964 for ""Marathon '33"", which she wrote. In 2000, Havoc was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. The June Havoc Theatre, housed at the Abingdon Theatre in New York City, was named for her in 2003. June Havoc June Havoc (born Ellen June Evangeline Hovick, November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, writer, and stage director. Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood, and stage-directed, both on and off-Broadway. She"
"explained away as a suicide. Mother Rose was not prosecuted. Mother Rose's biographer strongly refutes the notion that this woman, Genevieve Augustine, was Rose's lover, and doubts Rose's complicity in her death in light of Augustine's previous suicide attempts. Rose Thompson Hovick died in 1954 of colon cancer. After the death of their mother, the sisters now felt free to write about her without risking a lawsuit. """" was published in 1957 and served as inspiration for the Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents 1959 musical ""Gypsy"". Havoc did not like the way she was portrayed in the piece,"
"Rose Hemingway Rose Hemingway (née Sezniak or Szczesniak) (born January 1, 1984) is an American actress, performer and singer, known for performing in musical theatre productions. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, with ""strict Catholic"" parents. Hemingway, the sixth child of nine total siblings, recalls growing up around musicals: Hemingway attended an all-girls prep school just outside Philadelphia, Mount Saint Joseph Academy. A gymnast, she performed in multiple amateur theatre roles at the local community center, including adaptations of ""Peter Pan"", ""Alice in Wonderland"" and ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"". She joined The Rainbow Company, a youth"
"condolences on the same platform; Nell Scovell called her ""the patron saint of female comedy writers."" Marie died on December 28, 2017, at her home in Van Nuys, California, of natural causes at the age of 94. Rose Marie Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta; August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career that ultimately spanned over nine decades — and included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. As a child performer during the years just after the silent film era, she had a successful singing career"
"1959, and provided several of the voices on the 1963 CBS cartoon ""Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales"". In 1948, Rose co-founded New Stages, an off-Broadway repertory company, with producer David Heilweil. New Stages presented the American debut of Jean-Paul Sartre's best-known play, ""The Respectful Prostitute"", prior to its Broadway run. Rose was an accomplished stage actor appearing in Broadway productions of ""Richard III"" and ""St. Joan"" and off-Broadway in ""The Brothers Karamazov"". From 1969 to 1974, Rose stepped in front of the camera to portray the same character—psychiatrist Dr. Marcus Polk—on two ABC soap operas (""One Life to Live"" and"
"were all silent. She would cry for the cameras when her mother told her that the family's dog had died. In December 1928, Havoc, in an effort to escape her overbearing mother, eloped with Bobby Reed, a boy in the vaudeville act. Weeks later after performing at the Jayhawk Theatre in Topeka, Kansas on December 29, 1928, Rose reported Reed to the Topeka Police, and he was arrested. Rose had a concealed gun on her when she met Bobby at the police station. She pulled the trigger, but the safety was on. She then physically attacked her soon-to-be new son-in-law,"
"Wallack as ""Othello"" and Davenport as ""Iago"". Her literary works include adaptations of Dickens' ""Oliver Twist"" and ""Dombey and Son"", and Browning's ""Colombe's Birthday"". Her personal ""Recollections"" were published in 1905. Eytinge died of a stroke on December 20, 1911 at the Brunswick Home of Amityville, New York where she was supported by the Actors Fund of America. Her body was sent to Washington for burial. In addition to her children, Rose Eytinge had a niece, Pearl Eytinge (1860-1914) involved in the theatre. Rose Eytinge Rose Eytinge (November 21, 1835 – December 20, 1911) was a Jewish American actress and"
"German descent, and John Olaf Hovick (c. 1885-1952), the son of Norwegian immigrants, who worked as an advertising agent and reporter at ""The Seattle Times"". Following their parents' divorce, the two sisters earned the family's income by appearing in vaudeville, where June's talent often overshadowed Louise's. Baby June got an audition with Alexander Pantages (1876–1936), who had come to Seattle, Washington in 1902 to build theaters up and down the west coast of the United States. Soon, she was launched in vaudeville and also appeared in Hollywood movies. She could not speak until the age of three, but the films"
"Florence Reed Florence Reed (January 10, 1883 – November 21, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. She is remembered for several outstanding stage productions, including ""The Shanghai Gesture"", ""The Lullaby"", ""The Yellow Ticket"" and ""The Wanderer"". Her best remembered movie role was as Miss Havisham in the 1934 production of ""Great Expectations"". In this version, however, Miss Havisham was changed from a completely insane woman to an eccentric, who did not wear her wedding veil constantly, and who dies peacefully rather than as a result of suffering burns in a fire. In the 1950s Reed performed in several"
"role forever."" Theatre critic Charles McNulty wrote of her performance that it ""is widely considered one of the most memorable in contemporary Broadway history, winning not just awards but praise approaching the level of myth. The distinguished theater critic Gordon Rogoff, extolling 'the power available only to an actor at the height of her own command of detail,' went so far as to describe Lavin's portrayal as 'one of those textbook lessons in great acting...' "" She then starred on Broadway in ""Gypsy"" as Mama Rose Hovick, replacing Tyne Daly in July 1990. June Havoc saw Lavin's performance in ""Gypsy"""
"loud and cartoonish parody of a stage mother."" The original Broadway production opened on May 21, 1959 at The Broadway Theatre, transferred to the Imperial Theatre, and closed on March 25, 1961 after 702 performances and two previews. The show was produced by David Merrick and directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Ethel Merman starred as Rose, with Jack Klugman as Herbie and Sandra Church as Louise. Scenic and Lighting design were by Jo Mielziner and costumes were by Raoul Pène Du Bois. The orchestrations, including an overture, were supplied by Sid Ramin and Robert Ginzler. Critic Frank Rich has"
"Rose McGowan Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an American activist, former actress, author, model, and singer. After her film debut in a brief role in the comedy ""Encino Man"" (1992), McGowan achieved wider recognition for her performance in Gregg Araki's dark comedy ""The Doom Generation"" (1995), receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance. She had her breakthrough in the horror film ""Scream"" (1996) and subsequently headlined the films ""Going All the Way"" (1997), ""Devil in the Flesh"" (1998) and ""Jawbreaker"" (1999). During the 2000s, McGowan became known to television audiences for her role as"
"World Award. In November 2010, she married actor Geoffrey Hemingway, who had also appeared in the national tour of ""Mamma Mia!"" Rose Hemingway Rose Hemingway (née Sezniak or Szczesniak) (born January 1, 1984) is an American actress, performer and singer, known for performing in musical theatre productions. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, with ""strict Catholic"" parents. Hemingway, the sixth child of nine total siblings, recalls growing up around musicals: Hemingway attended an all-girls prep school just outside Philadelphia, Mount Saint Joseph Academy. A gymnast, she performed in multiple amateur theatre roles at the local community center, including adaptations"
"Hoblitzelle, a successful manager of movie and vaudeville theatres. The two founded the Hoblitzelle Foundation in 1942, which still exists today. Walker died of cancer in Dallas, Texas, on July 26, 1943, at the age of 48. Esther Walker Esther Walker (October 18, 1894 – July 26, 1943) was an American musical comedy performer. Esther Walker was born Esther Thomas in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Adopting the stage name of Esther Walker, she appeared on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre in a 1919 production of ""Monte Cristo Jr."", and later that year performed at the 44th Street Theatre in ""Hello,"
"Ruza Wenclawska Ruza Wenclawska (December 15, 1889 – 1977), also known as Rose Winslow and later as Rose Lyons by marriage, was a Polish-American suffragist, factory inspector and trade union organizer. She also worked as an actress and a poet. Wenclawska was born in Suwałki, Poland, and came to the United States with her parents when she was an infant. At the age of eleven, she began work as a mill girl in the hosiery industry in Pittsburgh. She also worked as a shop girl in Philadelphia, but when she was nineteen, she caught tuberculosis, and had to quit working"
"young, blonde, and beautiful daughter, June, a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags June and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister, Louise, around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit. Years pass, and the girls no longer are young enough to pull off the childlike personae their mother insists they continue to project. June rebels, and elopes with Tulsa, one of the dancers who"
"Rose Marie Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta; August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career that ultimately spanned over nine decades — and included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. As a child performer during the years just after the silent film era, she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie. As an adult, she became one of the first major stars to be known simply by her first names. Marie was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy ""The Dick"
"Ernestine Rose Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) was a Jewish suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker. Her career spanned from the 1830s - 1870s, making her a contemporary to the much more widely celebrated suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Largely forgotten in contemporary discussions of the American women's rights movement, she was one of its major intellectual forces in nineteenth-century America. Her relationship with Judaism is a debated motivation for her advocacy. In 1996, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She was born on January 13, 1810, in Piotrków Trybunalski,"
"Brothers and Rose Solo/Compilations Rose Maddox Roselea Arbana ""Rose"" Maddox (August 15, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player, who was the lead singer with the Maddox Brothers and Rose before a successful solo career. Her musical styles straddled hillbilly music, rockabilly and gospel. She was noted for her ""reputation as a lusty firebrand"", and her ""colorful Western costumes""; she was one of the earliest clients of Hollywood tailor Nathan Turk. She was born in Boaz, Alabama, and traveled west at the age of seven with her family, who had been sharecroppers. She later"
"Reizl Bozyk Reizl Bozyk (born 13 May 1914, Poland – 1 October 1993, New York, New York, USA), also known as Rose Bozyk and Róża Bożyk, was a Polish-born American actress of the Yiddish theatre. Her claim to mainstream fame was her sole film role in which she played the interfering grandmother of Amy Irving in Joan Micklin Silver's film ""Crossing Delancey"" (1988). She also appeared in a memorable ""Law and Order"" episode ""Night and Fog"" which aired in season 3. She was an enduring star of the Yiddish stage in New York, and earlier in Poland and Argentina, appearing"
"Mrs Kennion in ""The Younger Generation"" and in ""Half an Hour"" at the Lyceum Theatre (1913). She died in 1947 and is buried in Stockton Rural Cemetery with her father, mother and sister. Rose Beaudet Rose Beaudet (1862–1947) was an American actress and opera singer of the late Victorian era and early 20th century who regularly appeared in musical theatre. She was born as Eliza Lang, the daughter of Councilman Lewis H. Lang (1836-1912) of Stockton near San Francisco, and his wife Mary Ann Lang (1848 -1878). She married S. Arlant Edwards on 15 January 1891, but had divorced him"
"Elise Hwasser Ebba Charlotta Elise Hwasser née ""Jakobsson"" (16 March 1831 – 28 January 1894) was a Swedish stage actress. She was an elite actor and has been referred to as the leading lady of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in the mid 19th-century. Elise Jakobsson was born in Stockholm 16 March 1831 as the daughter of the custom caretaker Johannes Magnus Jacobson and Catharina (Cajsa) Maria Bergström. As a child, she worked as the gofer of her elder sister, and delivered the artificial flowers her sister made to her clients. She was enrolled as a student at the ""Dramatens elevskola"""
"Rose Maddox Roselea Arbana ""Rose"" Maddox (August 15, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player, who was the lead singer with the Maddox Brothers and Rose before a successful solo career. Her musical styles straddled hillbilly music, rockabilly and gospel. She was noted for her ""reputation as a lusty firebrand"", and her ""colorful Western costumes""; she was one of the earliest clients of Hollywood tailor Nathan Turk. She was born in Boaz, Alabama, and traveled west at the age of seven with her family, who had been sharecroppers. She later said in an interview:"
"Russell Mack Russell Mack (November 11, 1892 – June 1, 1972) was an American vaudeville performer in the 1910s and a stage actor, film director, and producer in the 1920s and 1930s. Born Edward Russell Mahoney in Oneonta, New York, Mack was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he worked first as a reporter and then as a theatre manager. In 1911 he formed a vaudeville duo with pianist Blanche Vincent, and they toured as “Mack and Vincent” with some success on the Orpheum circuit, in addition to managing cabarets in New York City. Vincent was often identified as Mack’s"
"Erin O'Brien-Moore Erin O'Brien-Moore (May 2, 1902 in Los Angeles, California – May 3, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actress. She created the role of Rose in the original Broadway production of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ""Street Scene"" (1929), and was put under contract in Hollywood and made a number of films in the 1930s. Her promising career on the stage and screen was interrupted by severe injuries she sustained in a 1939 fire. Following her recovery and extensive plastic surgery she returned to the stage and character roles in films and television, notably in four"
"Her death came after an extended illness. She was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in her native Hoosick Falls following a Mass of Christian Burial at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. She was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Hoosick Falls, New York. The summer she died, playwright Frank Wirmusky cast ""This Is Your Life, Hoosick Falls"". The play transformed one hundred and fifty years of the town's history into an hour-long theatrical performance. Actors depicted twelve Hoosick Falls men and women from the past who made important contributions in various endeavors. One of those portrayed was Hoctor. Actress Kelly"
"Luke, and a daughter, Shelby. She was born in Pueblo, Colorado and died in Denver, Colorado of an infection secondary to kidney surgery on December 12, 2015, four days after her 43rd birthday. Rose Siggins Rose Marie Homan (December 8, 1972 – December 12, 2015), better known by her stage (and married) name Rose Siggins, was an American actress best known for her portrayal of Legless Suzi on """". Siggins was born with sacral agenesis, and because of this, as she recalled, ""my legs were severely deformed, with the feet pointing in opposite directions."" Her parents decided to have her"
"until his death in 1937. They often appeared in stage productions together. They had no children. She died on November 21, 1967. She was interred in the same burial plot with her good friend, actress Blanche Yurka, in the Actors Fund of America section of Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Florence Reed Florence Reed (January 10, 1883 – November 21, 1967) was an American stage and film actress. She is remembered for several outstanding stage productions, including ""The Shanghai Gesture"", ""The Lullaby"", ""The Yellow Ticket"" and ""The Wanderer"". Her best remembered movie role was as Miss Havisham in the 1934"
"Rose Stradner Rose Stradner (July 31, 1913 – September 27, 1958) was an Austrian stage and film actress, who starred opposite Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck, and other leading men of her era. She was married to the film director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Stradner was born in Vienna, Austria on July 31, 1913. While still an infant, she moved with her parents to Trieste and Isonzo, where her father was stationed as an engineer in charge of troop transportation during World War I. Post-war, she was sent to a convent after returning with her parents to Vienna. After completing her"
"Ivory Branch"" with Diana Barrymore. In 1959, Rahn became the first black musical director of the Städtische Bühnen Theater in Frankfurt, Germany. Rahn died on August 8, 1961 at Sydenham Hospital in New York City from lung cancer. Muriel Rahn Muriel Rahn (1911 – 1961) was an American vocalist and actress. She co-founded the Rose McClendon Players with her husband, Dick Campbell and was one of the leading black concert singers of the mid-20th Century. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the original Broadway production of ""Carmen Jones"". Rahn also served as musical director of the"
"Rose, Marcia Rodd as Lotte, and James Shigeta as Prince Eagle. Other cast members included Alvin Ing, Haruki Fujimoto, as well as choreographer Jack Cole who took on the role of Mongol Lord Hoo Hah. During rehearsals Picon, upset that her role had been reduced, walked out, but eventually returned. The November 1966 tryout at the New Locust Theatre in Philadelphia was plagued by constant revisions to the script and score, and an unhappy Picon quit permanently. At one point on opening night, her successor Henrietta Jacobson turned to the audience and announced, ""There was a song here, but you'll"
"her first stage role in English, appearing in the comedy ""Social Security"" directed by Peter Lowey at the Forum Theater in Metuchen, New Jersey. The following year she recreated her ""Crossing Delancey"" role on stage in Florida, and was due to tour again when she suddenly died. She died at St. Vincent's Hospital Medical Center, in New York City, aged 79, from undisclosed causes. She was survived by her daughter Suzanne, four grandsons, Peter, Joseph, Daniel and Matthew, granddaughter in law, Coleen, one great-grandson, Daniel. Reizl Bozyk Reizl Bozyk (born 13 May 1914, Poland – 1 October 1993, New York,"